Did You Forget Your Shower?

By: Al Sears, MD

Did you know that water utilities have found 315 pollutants in tap water?₁ Most of my patients are already drinking filtered or bottled water. But most haven’t thought about what happens when they shower.

For many of these pollutants, there are no federal guidelines. For example, in Philadelphia, officials found 56 drugs and chemicals in treated water. It included pain meds, statins, antibiotics, and medications for mental illness and heart problems.₂

There is no reliable system in place to remove these pollutants.

Not only that, chlorine is added to water to kill bacteria. That’s a concern because chlorine breaks apart and recombines with pharmaceuticals and chemicals from things like lotions, shampoos, and makeup that wash down the drain.

When chlorine and these ingredients combine, it can be worse. Because it turns into things like chloroform.

Chloroform used to be used as anesthesia. No one uses it anymore because of the danger. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health considers chloroform a carcinogen. It causes liver, kidney, and thyroid tumors. One study links chloroform found in water to bladder and rectal cancer. They limit worker’s exposure to 2 ppm per 60 minutes.₃

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Will You Lose Your Right to Choose Your Food?

By Al Sears, MD

What if someone told you, “There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food.”₁

Or that you have “… no generalized right to bodily and physical health.”₂

What would you say? What would you do?

I didn’t get this out of a George Orwell science fiction novel.

These are quotes from our government.

This was the FDA’s response when consumers and farmers from six different states filed a lawsuit to reverse the ban on selling raw milk between states.

Raw milk is milk that isn’t pasteurized. It builds your immunity. It contains enzymes, vitamins and minerals, essential fatty acids, and amino acids that get destroyed through pasteurization.

Federal bureaucrats say you don’t have the right to drink raw milk. And that they have the right to tell you what you can and cannot eat and drink.

Plenty of people have joined the fight against it. But the government is fighting back and terrorizing families.

Imagine being one of the farmers: It’s 5:00 a.m. You walk out your front door and federal agents blind you with flashlights. They slap a warrant into your hands.

Men draw guns and root like pigs through your coolers and freezers. It wakes your family.

Your children cry out, “Is Daddy going to jail?”₃

All because you’re selling milk?

It’s not a story. It happened recently to an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania. And it’s happening to many small, independent farmers just like him.

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Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder

By: Mike Adams
(NaturalNews) In its never-ending attempt to fabricate "mental disorders" out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.

This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs. The Guardian newspaper reports, "Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder" and goes on to claim this "disease" is called orthorexia nervosa -- which is basically just Latin for "nervous about correct eating."

But they can't just called it "nervous healthy eating disorder" because that doesn't sound like they know what they're talking about. So they translate it into Latin where it sounds smart (even though it isn't). That's where most disease names come from: Doctors just describe the symptoms they see with a name like osteoporosis (which means "bones with holes in them").

Getting back to this fabricated "orthorexia" disease, the Guardian goes on to report, "Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out."

Wait a second. So attempting to avoid chemicals, dairy, soy and sugar now makes you a mental health patient? Yep. According to these experts. If you actually take special care to avoid pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified ingredients like soy and sugar, there's something wrong with you.

But did you notice that eating junk food is assumed to be "normal?" If you eat processed junk foods laced with synthetic chemicals, that's okay with them. The mental patients are the ones who choose organic, natural foods, apparently.

What is "normal" when it comes to foods?

I told you this was coming. Years ago, I warned NaturalNews readers that an attempt might soon be under way to outlaw broccoli because of its anti-cancer phytonutrients. This mental health assault on health-conscious consumers is part of that agenda. It's an effort to marginalize healthy eaters by declaring them to be mentally unstable and therefore justify carting them off to mental institutions where they will be injected with psychiatric drugs and fed institutional food that's all processed, dead and full of toxic chemicals.

The Guardian even goes to the ridiculous extreme of saying, "The obsession about which foods are "good" and which are "bad" means orthorexics can end up malnourished."

Follow the non-logic on this, if you can: Eating "good" foods will cause malnutrition! Eating bad foods, I suppose, is assumed to provide all the nutrients you need. That's about as crazy a statement on nutrition as I've ever read. No wonder people are so diseased today: The mainstream media is telling them that eating health food is a mental disorder that will cause malnutrition!

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Modern Supermarkets: Palaces of Poisons

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(NaturalNews) Each week, my wife and I do our grocery shopping. And yes, even though I'm a man, I'm always involved in this because what we buy is a very important purchase - an investment in our health and business productivity. We are what we eat, for better or for worse.

First, we go to a natural/organic food market and buy most of our food there. Organic is our first choice. Natural is the second choice.

"Organic" means that 95%+ of the ingredients are organic, excluding water and salt. "Natural" means at least 75% are organic.

What we can't find at a natural/organic food market, we buy at an upscale supermarket.

Most metropolitan areas have one or more upscale supermarkets. There are usually a number of downscale supermarkets, too, with Wal-Mart Supercenters usually the market share leader in the downscale segment.

When we discuss organic food with people, they always ask, "aren't organic foods too expensive?" Answer: not really. They're more expensive to buy, but you need less of them to feel satisfied. On a net basis, then, with organic foods, there is no real increase in your total food cost.

Many people asking the "too expensive" question cheerfully squander their food dollars on worthless, dangerous items like sodas, cold cereals, white bread, bottled water, junk meat, candy, baby food in jars, and bakery items - to name a few. People can save serious money by not buying these needless items, instead investing the savings into organic and natural foods, earning higher returns - better health and increased stamina.

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Why did the Russians Ban an Appliance Found in 90% of American Homes?

Convenience Comes at Significant Toxic Threat to You and Your Family

Microwaves heat food by causing water molecules in it to resonate at very high frequencies and eventually turn to steam which heats your food. While this can rapidly heat your food, what most people fail to realize is that it also causes a change in your food’s chemical structure.

There are numerous issues that have emerged since microwave ovens were first introduced to consumers more than 40 years ago, besides depleting your food’s nutritional value, which will be addressed a bit later.

The first thing you probably noticed when you began microwaving food was how uneven the heating is.

“Hot spots” in microwaved food can be hot enough to cause burns—or build up to a “steam explosion.” This has resulted in admonitions to new mothers about NOT using the microwave to heat up baby bottles, since babies have been burned by super-heated formula that went undetected.

Another problem with microwave ovens is that carcinogenic toxins can leach out of your plastic and paper containers/covers, and into your food.

The January/February 1990 issue of Nutrition Action Newsletter reported the leakage of numerous toxic chemicals from the packaging of common microwavable foods, including pizzas, chips and popcorn. Chemicals included polyethylene terpthalate (PET), benzene, toluene, and xylene. Microwaving fatty foods in plastic containers leads to the release of dioxins (known carcinogens) and other toxins into your food. [8] [2]

One of the worst contaminants is BPA, or bisphenol A, an estrogen-like compound used widely in plastic products. In fact, dishes made specifically for the microwave often contain BPA, but many other plastic products contain it as well.

Microwaving distorts and deforms the molecules of whatever food or other substance you subject to it. An example of this is blood products.

Blood is normally warmed before being transfused into a person. Now we know that microwaving blood products damages the blood components. In fact, one woman died after receiving a transfusion of microwaved blood in 1991 , which resulted in a well-publicized lawsuit.

Read the full article by Joseph Mercola, MD here.

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A Holistic Approach to Treating the Symptoms of Diverticulitis

By: Frank Mangano

(NaturalNews) There is often confusion surrounding the difference between two conditions known as diverticulosis and diverticulitis. I'm going to explain the difference and reveal how to treat the symptoms of diverticulitis naturally.

Diverticula are small, pea-sized, bulging pouches in the digestive tract. While diverticula can form anywhere, most occur in your large intestine and are many times found in people that experience frequent constipation.

Having diverticula in the intestines is known as diverticulosis. This condition is many times unrecognized by the person affected because diverticulosis seldom causes any problems. Every once in a while however, diverticula can become infected or inflamed. This condition is called diverticulitis.

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FDA Targets Harvard Doctor

The assault by the FDA on your supplements has turned into an all out war.

In a letter from both the FDA and FTC, Dr. Andrew Weil was threatened with criminal prosecution.

I’m not making this stuff up. Look at what the letter actually said:

“If your firm fails to take corrective action immediately, FDA may take enforcement action, such as seizure or injunction for violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act without further notice.”

What did Dr. Weil do to risk “possible criminal prosecution for violations of the FFDC Act”?

He made true statements about his immune-boosting formula containing Astragalus.

On his website, he said “During the flu season, I suggest taking a daily antioxidant, multi-vitamin-mineral supplement, as well as astragalus, a well-known immune-boosting herb that can help ward off colds and flu.”

How does something like this happen? How can the FDA interpret this as a violation warranting “criminal prosecution”?

Because the FDA has a strong and direct conflict of interest.

They make money from drug companies.

In 1992, Congress passed the landmark Prescription Drug User Fee Act, effectively putting the FDA on the pharmaceutical industry’s payroll.

To speed up the approval of drugs, the law authorized drug companies to pay user fees to the FDA, making it dependent on the very industry it regulates.

Today, industry-paid FDA employees constitute more than half of the agency’s staff involved in approving drugs.

Since the law was enacted, 13 prescription drugs causing hundreds of deaths have had to be withdrawn from the market.1

This war is nothing more than a censorship racket designed to protect big pharma and big government profits.

So, just how dangerous are supplements and natural remedies that has the FDA declaring war on your right to purchase natural alternatives?

You’re not going to believe this one.

There was not one death caused by dietary supplements in 2008. Not one.

A recent report in the journal Clinical Toxicology shows that there was not one death caused by any vitamin including A, B, C, D, and E.2

What’s more, there wasn’t one death caused by amino acids, herbals, homeopathics, or mineral supplements.

Not a single man, woman, or child died from nutritional supplements.

Yet nearly 125,000 people die each year from FDA-approved prescription drugs. That’s twice the number of casualties we suffered during the Vietnam War.

That’s a tragedy. And it’s a war that is happening every year.

In addition, prescription drugs cause 2.2 million adverse reactions each year.3

That’s not all.

Nearly five percent of all hospital admissions – more than 1 million per year – are due to drug side effects.

What’s worse, the FDA and corporate America have a history of suppressing safe alternatives that work. CoQ10 is a good example of this.

Back in 1990, Merck knew that statins deplete CoQ10. They knew that this could contribute to heart disease. In that year, Merck was granted a patent by the FDA for Mevacor and other statin drugs containing CoQ10.

These statin drugs with CoQ10 help prevent congestive heart failure.

However, Merck has not brought these drugs to market. Nor have they educated physicians on the importance of supplementing CoQ10 to offset the dangers of these drugs.

They patented it and let it sit there simply to keep it off the market.

But because they hold the patent, other drug companies are prevented from coming out with a statin/CoQ10 product that could save lives.

The bottom line here is that you need to stay informed and not be misled by those who don’t have your best health interests at heart.

The good news is you’re already being proactive by reading this e-letter.

You can also tell your congressman about your views on restricting your access to natural supplements. The Alliance for Natural Health is a nonprofit organization that makes it easy for you. They have letters already written, which you just sign and send straight to your congressman via the Internet. You can check out their latest campaigns and action alerts here.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD